Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel

Sanaaq: An Inuit NovelSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are

a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide

When Basil Johnston began teaching the Anishinaubae language in the late 1960s

fight a Mafia takeover of the tribe's casino

for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance

raises a grandson

oppression and racism in North America from an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer

shockingly

Firewater examines alcohol─its history

Wagamese recalled living on the street

At school she missed her mother and her traditional life

such as tribal newspapers

and her grandmother